muscular+sclerosis

__**﻿What is Muscular Sclerosis?**__ Muscular sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that affects the central nervous system. MS causes inflammaton and destruction of myelin. Myelin surrounds the nerve fibers of you body and acts like an insulation on a wire preventing short-circuits that divert your nerves to make desired actions. The symptoms for MS start between the ages of 20 and 40, symptoms are blurred or doubled eye vision, red-green color distortion, and even blindness in one eye. It is more common in females than in males. The process of "demyelination" interferes with nerve impulse transmission and affects muscle control. Most people with MS experience muscle weakness and difficulty with their balance and coordiantion. Most people with MS also end up in wheelchairs because of how weak their muscles are. Symptoms can be severe enough to impair the ability of walking or standing. MS can also produce parital or complete paralysis. Some people with MS can also experience pains like "pins and needles", pricking, or numbness.They also occosionally have hearing loss.

__**Is There Any Treatment for MS?**__ At the moment, there is no treatment for MS. Some patients don't even need therapy, but others do, depending on how bad their case is. Most of the time, the medicine that is available can have very serious side effects. With medicine they have though, when attacks do occur, they are not as severe as normal and are a lot shorter. There is also a synthetic form of myelin basic protien, called copolymer 1, for the treatment of relapsing-remitting MS. It only has few side effects compared to other medicine. Steriods do not affect the course of MS over time, they can reduce the duration and severity of attacks in most people with MS. Physical therapy can also help preserve remaining function.

**__What Causes MS?__** The cause of MS is still unknown. But scientists believe that a combination of several factors may be involved. Studies are still going trying to find the reason why MS occurs. These studies are ongoing in the areas of immunology, which is the science of the body's immune system. If we understand what causes MS, it will be a very important step toward finding more affective ways to treat it, or even cure it.Some possible reasons for MS to occur would be because of you enviorment. If you live further from the equator, it is more likely that you will get MS. There are so many different theories about reasons why MS occures, but we will never know the real reason until all of the studies are finished and are done for sure.